Prosecutors secure natural life sentence plus additional 75 Years for 2008 triple murder
A Chicago man who shot and killed his foster parents and their son during a brutal attack in 2008 has been sentenced to natural life in prison plus an additional 75 years, according to the Office of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
Vennis McCall, 34, was previously convicted of the murders of Alan McCullough, Jr., 46, his wife Danna McCullough, 43, and their son Alan McCullough, III, 19. Alan McCullough was a police officer with the Veteran’s Administration Police and Danna McCullough worked for the U.S. Postal Service at the time that they were slain on April 4, 2008.
According to prosecutors, the crime unfolded after police were called to the family’s home in the 6100 block of South Hermitage in Chicago to conduct a well-being check after Alan Jr., failed to show up to work. Investigators discovered the bodies of all three victims in the home and each had been shot one time in the head. Alan Jr., had also been severely beaten in the head with a hammer.
The victims had previously been the defendant’s foster family and had just taken him in again after McCall was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections for a 1998 Armed Robbery conviction and a 2001 escape case in which he attempted to flee from a courtroom.
In the 2008 case, McCall avoided arrest for nearly three weeks after the murders occurred by breaking into and hiding in various homes in the surrounding neighborhood. He was taken into custody for the murders on April 22, 2008 after he was discovered by a neighbor in the basement of a home.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Rosemary Higgins sentenced McCall to the natural life term plus an additional 75 years during a recent hearing on October 16 at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago.
State’s Attorney Alvarez thanked Assistant State’s Attorneys Joseph Magats and Kim Ward as well as the Chicago Police Department for their work on the case.
